The National Leasehold Campaign warmly welcomes today’s launch of the CMA investigation into the leasehold housing market. We will, of course, be happy to work with the CMA to give evidence to support their investigation. For thousands of hard-working families across England and Wales, their dreams of home ownership have turned into a living nightmare with onerous ground rents, stinging permission fees, rocketing service charges and that stomach churning, penny drop moment when you realise that you don’t own a single brick of your property – the only thing you own is the lease and you are a tenant. It’s time for England and Wales to catch up with Scotland and abolish leasehold tenure to the history books where it belongs.
Justin Madders MP, Katie Kendrick, Jo Darbyshire & Cath Williams at the first Leaseholders Conference in Manchester November 2018 held jointly with Leasehold Knowledge Partnership (LKP)
As you know we work tirelessly for ALL leaseholders who are caught up in the complicated leasehold system. If you think we deserve to be nominated for this award please take a moment to complete the nomination process.
We are suggesting the following categories:
TEAM OF THE YEAR – National Leasehold Campaign
WOMEN OF THE YEAR – Katie Kendrick (founder of the NLC)
TEAM OF THE YEAR
The NLC was launched in Jan 2017 and has gone from strength to strength. The past 12 months we have:
Held a demonstration in London which was supported by many MPS.
Parliamentary Select Committee Inquiry: Which produced a damning report which was highly critical of the law and developers actions – Jo Darbyshire & Katie Kendrick gave verbal evidence in Westminster and along with 700 pieces of evidence Clive Betts (Chair) stated it was the largest amount of evidence they have ever received for an inquiry.
The NLC have galvanised leaseholders. Leaseholder’s now have a voice, our voices are being heard at the highest level and we will continue to make as much noise as possible until we are reLEASED.
If Leasehold Knowledge Partnership (LKP) was run by women they would win this award hands down. Without them the NLC would not be where we are today, and for that we are extremely thankful.
Katie has been a guest speaker at this years Professionalism In Property Conference 2019 where she joined some of the industries top property professionals. Katie spoke about : Leasehold property – Informing purchasers and examining mis-selling
Complete YOUR personal contact details, then complete ENTRY details. For Team Nomination use National Leasehold Campaign, for Women of the Year use Katie Kendrick (NLC).
Click “I am nominating someone else for this category” – include NLC email address here (nationalleaseholdcampaign@gmail.com)
Select the category from the drop down menu (either Women of the Year or Team of the Year) – we would appreciate if people could do both.
From the drop down “job function that most clsely matches this team” you could select ‘Policy’ or ‘Other’
Then please include in your own personal words why you would like to nominate.
The National Leasehold Campaign have reached 14k members today.
This is a massive milestone. The campaign has come so far and continues to go from strength to strength. It’s a brilliant illustration of people power at it’s best. We will continue to grow & fight until this feudal outdated abusive system is ABOLISHED.
Today Katie Kendrick (Founder of the NLC) spoke on Radio 2 Jeremy Vine which has really helped us to reach even more leaseholders.
You can listen to the programme in the link below.
